Faculty and Staff

Phone: 816.235.1711

Email: enriquezm@umkc.edu

CV: EnriquezM.pdf

Biography: Maithe Enriquez, PhD, RN, is the director of the PhD program at UMKC School of Nursing. She also mentors and guides graduate and undergraduate nursing students in clinical research projects. Her program of research focuses on developing interventions that help disadvantaged populations prevent and manage chronic illness and decrease health disparities. Her current research projects include the development of an intervention program to enhance the health outcomes of low-acculturated Latinas living with HIV and implementing a violence prevention program among a group of low-income Hispanic high school students.  Among her recent publications are: “Impact of a Bilingual/Bicultural Care Team”, "Feasibility of an Intervention to Decrease Risk for HIV and IPV”, “Efficacy of an intervention to enhance readiness for HIV treatment adherence”, and “Poverty, Pregnancy & HIV". Dr. Enriquez is a mentor for the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA) and an editorial board member for the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC). Dr. Enriquez is also an adult nurse practitioner who has a clinical appointment at the UMKC School of Medicine with a practice based in the Infectious Diseases Clinic at Truman Medical Center (TMC) and in addition volunteers at the Helen Gragg Adult Clinic at Operation Breakthrough.

More Information:

http://www.myspace.com/drmaithe